Top 10 Skills You Learn As A Real Estate Agent

Let’s be honest, in the trust stakes, most people think Real Estate Agents sit somewhere between a snakes belly and a used car salesman.

While just about everyone has had a negative experience with an agent at some point in their life, not everyone knows what it’s like to actually be an agent. Let me assure you, it’s not as easy as you may think!

Common objections to agents go something like this;

• “Why should I pay you so much commission when I can sell the property myself?”
• “Bring me a buyer and you can have the listing”
• “I won’t pay for marketing. You pay the marketing because we’ll be paying you so much”

There’s easy answers to all these objections, but rather than go into that, here’s a list of our top 10 skills these type of constant rejections teach you as an agent (a good one anyway).

1. Resilience – keep showing up
2. Patience – never give up
3. Reliability & Respect – always do what you say you’ll do, when you said you’d do it. This earns respect
4. Humility – all of the above builds this in spades
5. Detail – be prepared and always come armed with all the facts
6. Processes – you must have very good processes, or your career will be short!
7. Faith – that your process works. Stick with the plan
8. Financial acumen – you must have it to survive and thrive in real estate because you’re dealing with smart people who know their numbers inside out
9. Strategy – you must have a strategy to differentiate yourself and offer something no one else can. Find it and work it hard
10. Trust – we saved the most important to last! This is the currency of real estate. You must trust your client AND they must place their trust in you. Without trust, you have nothing

That’s our top 10. And this will serve as a handy daily reminder! What did we miss, what are your tips?